3,000 words on Star Trek: Discovery

[lizbee]

It's not a review, it's an explosion of feelpinions on No Award:

In space, everyone can hear you whitemansplain.

(Spoilers: we mostly loved it.)

Comments

[rj_anderson]

I thought it was going to be a generally non-spoilery explosion of feelspinions and now I am totally spoiled for the Big Thing That Happens, but perhaps it's for the better so I can be emotionally prepared. DAGNABBIT, STAR TREK, WHY CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS?!

[lizbee]

I'M SORRY, I SHOULD HAVE BEEN CLEARER

I wish I could say that being forewarned (by about 15 minutes) made it easier, but ... well, maybe more time is better?

[archangelbeth]

I am gonna hafta torrent this or something till they get the episodes out on iTunes or DVD. *sob*

I am glad to be seeing mostly mostly-positive reviews, though. Thank you.

[lizbee]

It's on Netflix outside the US and Canada, but I have a vague but definite memory of you being in North America...

[archangelbeth]

US, alas. And don't have even Netflix. OXD
(OXD = XD with halo = the squinchy-eyed laughter of irony)

[cheyinka]

Regarding the Big Thing That Happens I was really hoping that, as rj_anderson put it upthread, we would get to have nice things, instead of the usual inability to have nice things. The idea of that character actually being a Klingon prisoner is a++, however.

Knowing that Saru will be in the rest of the season (presumably the rest of the series) makes me hope that there'll be more prominent nonhumans than just Saru - I don't want him to be DISC's Spock, you know? I'd also like more non-Terran humans than just Michael but I have a feeling that that's probably asking for too much.

The main complaint I'm seeing in the thread I'm reading on Something Awful (yes I know, I should know better) is that it doesn't feel peaceful-explorer-y enough and that it feels too political. (I'll wait while you finish laughing.) I really didn't have any major complaints, myself; though I wish the Klingons looked a little less bumpy to match how they looked in TOS (how they will look in 2268) I can at least recognize that this is a Very Minor Quibble. (That I wish the Big Thing That Happens had gone differently isn't really a complaint. I can wish it hadn't and still recognize that that's always how it was going to be.)